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  • Board takes first look at use of solar energy

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — Alternative energy projects could soon be looked at by the Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education. Ed Liberty of the Dome-Tech Group, Edison, provided board members with an overview of solar energy options at their Oct. 14 workshop meeting. District administrators are considering whether they should research…

  • Conservation group nears fundraising goal

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Despite heavy downpours the day before and more predictions of inclement weather, 350 loyal supporters of the Monmouth Conservation Foundation (MCF) made it out to Monmouth County’s Huber Woods Equestrian Center, Middletown, on Sept. 27 for the 31st annual dinner dance and fundraiser. This year’s theme was “The Home Stretch,”…

  • Contract gets formal approval

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer ENGLISHTOWN – The members of the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District Board of Education voted on Oct. 7 to ratify a new contract with the Manalapan Englishtown Education Association (MEEA). The MEEA represents 450 faculty members in the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District. The district serves children in kindergarten through eighth grade…

  • Pupils celebrate peace

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Schools in the Freehold Township School District held various events on Sept. 22 in recognition of the International Day of Peace established by the United Nations in 1982. Teachers organized school-wide activities to raise community awareness about what peace means in daily lives, with an emphasis on tolerance, cooperation and unity. At…

  • Optimists to honor Dave Salkin

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The Sunrise Optimist Club will hold its sixth annual gift auction on Nov. 21 at the Forsgate Country Club, Monroe Township. The annual event is a major source of funding for the many youth-related programs supported by the Optimist Club. This year, the Sunrise Optimists will be honoring David M. Salkin, co-owner…

  • Director returns to local scene with play at Jewish museum

    After a three-year hiatus from the Monmouth County arts community, David Sorin of Howell is making his directorial return with the production of Mark Harelik’s “The Immigrant” at the HayLoft Performing Arts Space in Freehold Township. The new space is inside the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County in the Mount’s Corner shopping center at…

  • Open space assessment subject of ballot question

    MANALAPAN — When Manalapan residents go to the polls on Election Day, Nov. 4, they will be asked by municipal officials to vote on a ballot question that could end up saving them money. Manalapan residents presently pay 2 cents per $100 of assessed valuation into an open space trust fund every year that township…

  • Pop art’s bold imagery on display at Zimmerli

    Top: “Reverie,” by former Rutgers professor Roy Lichtenstein, from 1965, is among the prints on exhibit at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. Above: Andy Warhol’s “Vegetarian Vegetable” is from 1969. NEW BRUNSWICK — They are now universally celebrated artists, but in the 1960s they were pioneers in a new era known as proto-pop and…

  • Atty. says two new officers to be hired

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN — A meeting behind closed doors among Township Committee members, Police Chief Stuart Brown and negotiators acting at Brown’s request and on his behalf was held last week at town hall. The meeting was scheduled after Mitchell C. Sklar, the executive director of the New Jersey State Association of…